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I'm celebrating my third New Year's in Ecuador. This was my first on the beach, though. The other two were in Cuenca and my experiences there seem like a kid's birthday party compared the coastal festivities. The first year we went to El Centro. We ate dinner, bought...
By Robert Bradley It was not the first time I heard the story. He said, “I was whooping it up with the boys at the Inca Lounge the other night and felt great! But, the next morning I felt as if my head was raked through a combine, and only the chaff was left. Ya’...
By David Wallace-Wells For once, the climate news might be better than you thought. It’s certainly better than I’ve thought. You may not have noticed it, amid the flood of bad news about the “Emissions Gap” and the collapse of the COP25 climate conference in Madrid,...
Lunes, 30/12/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Street singer - Darwin Sánchez visits Cuenca from Manabí every 5 months to sing Julio Jaramillo songs on Sucre y Benigno Malo. Seasonal products - Also on Sucre y Benigno Malo, 28 members of the...
According to UNICEF, poor vaccination coverage and large pockets of unvaccinated children have resulted in devastating measles outbreaks in many parts of the world – including in countries that had high coverage rates or had previously eliminated the disease. In some...
Although the National Assembly mandated a new tax on plastic bags for 2020, it will be at least 90 days before the tax is collected at grocery stores, markets and tiendas. In the meantime, Ecuador’s Internal Revenue Service (SRI) must resolve such questions as whether...
The fun just keeps on a-comin’! Last Tuesday, Cuenca celebrated Pase del Niño Viajero, one in a series of Pases celebrating the birth of Jesus that will continue until Carnival. The first of the festivals began on the first Sunday of Advent. The second was the big...
The National Institute of Meteorology (Inamhi) is warning residents of the inter-mountain valley to protect themselves from high levels of ultraviolet radiation. The agency reported that UV levels considered "high" and "extremely high" were recorded in Quito, Loja and...
By David Morrill Give Vadim Avdeev two minutes and he can steal your cell phone number and call you from it. Give him five and he can shut down the accounts of thousands of Cuenca internet and utility customers and erase any evidence that they ever existed. With a...
I don’t remember not knowing about the Holocaust. My father, Rolf Gompertz escaped from Nazi Germany with his parents. They came to the U.S. in his eleventh year after a childhood marked by state-sanctioned violence and persecution. His parents lost everything except...
Viernes, 27/12/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Destinos para el fin de semana (Weekend Destinations) - San Fernando - martes, 31/12 - 17:00: show of monigotes and comparsas; 18:00: comparsas parade; 19:00: comparsas and monigotes contests;...
The Ministry of Labor announced Friday afternoon that Ecuador’s minimum wage will increase by $6 January 1, 2020. The new rate will be $400 a month. The ministry says that a larger increase is unwarranted given the annual inflation rate of less than one percent. The...
By Aja Romano For a long time now, the cross-generational dialogue between baby boomers and millennials has been built atop several recurring themes. Boomers — the generation born roughly between 1946 and 1965 — scoff that millennials expect “participation trophies”...
Mayor Pedro Palacios said Thursday that live tests of Cuenca’s Tranvía de los Cuatros Rios will begin soon and that a fare will be determined in January. Although Palacios did not specify a date when tests will begin, the director of tram operations says it will be in...
Jueves, 26/12/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Collective show - 14 artists from El Puente Roto are having a show in the Quinta Bolívar in Gapal. Map of cultural attractions - The El Vado Committee has published a map of attractions in the area...
Susan's note: This is the third in a multi-part series on fats — In Part I I wrote about trans fats, or hydrogenated fats, and how they transformed the processed foods industry — and how increased consumption of trans fat was linked to the rise in the incidence of...
A Court of Justice judge in Quito has ordered that Pichincha Prefect Paola Pabón be released from preventive detention while she awaits trial on charges of rebellion stemming from the October protests. In her Tuesday ruling, Judge Patlova Guerra said that the...
By Lara Merling Over the past year, a rebranded International Monetary Fund (IMF) has returned to Latin America with promises of loan agreements that would be different than the dreaded “structural adjustment program” of the past. Behind statements about inclusive...
Following a recent visit to Ecuador, independent United Nations human rights experts concluded that the government should step up efforts to enforce the law and implement plans to end racial discrimination suffered by Afro-Ecuadorians and people of African descent....
Cuenca's big Christmas Eve Pase del Niño parade lived up to expectations Tuesday with an estimated 130,000 participants and onlookers gathering for the nine-hour march down Calle Simon Bolivar. As usual, children were the highlight of the day. Katy Miller, one of the...
